CR-48 Links to iMac with Chrome Remote Desktop

05/30/2012-
On  Flipboard this morning, a Giga Om article on ChromeBooks and a ChromeBox caught my attention.
http://goo.gl/C8M1C
Om mentions a new Google program/extension, Chrome Remote Desktop; it sounded intriguing.
With the extension downloaded to the CR-48 and the program downloaded to an iMac running the lates Lion OSX; I was ready to give it a test.
It works quite well. I am able to view and control the Mac with the ChromeBook, open, edit and close documents; slightly ironic that they are stored in dropbox. I even could open and edit a fairly complex, fully rendered 3D house plan in Vectorworks. The home or office computer is doing all of the heavy lifting, after all the Chromebook is only acting as an input device and remote monitor.

The biggest difficulty is having to use the CR-48 touchpad which is a little clunky.
I think using chrome remote desktop on a newer chrome book would be a much better experience.
It also seems like a chrome tablet would work well for this.
I have not checked it out using a cellular data connection but will do so soon.